Topic: Structures
Malinkrodt Chemical Company is nearning completion. Doug has been working on this big project for several months. More piping is in the works and we have yet to come up with appropriate and affordable materials for building the lengthy perimeter fence. But all of the major structures are now in place. This model has its' origins in a HO kit-bashing project by Art Curren which I found quite some time ago in Model Railroader magazine. Two Walthers New River Mining kits were heavily modified as part of that original kit-bash to create two buildings like the light green structures at the center of our factory. Other kits used by Curren for the HO kit-bash are unavailable in N scale. So we improvised. Most of the dark-colored tanks, including the large storage tanks in the foreground, are HO kits. The silver cracking towers come from the North Island Refinery kit by Walthers. You may recognize the white towers and spherical tanks as the Plastruct refinery kit. The red-topped water tower is also a Plastruct kit. The building with the sawtoothed roof line is a Green Max kit. Ancillary structures come from Model Power, Micro Engineering , and Vollmer. All these diverse kits have been brought together into a single large industrial facility. I think the crowded appearence typical of chemical plants is more evident as you get closer to a ground level view.
